Fiji Live Sand

[z28pwr]

I want to order some Fiji Live Sand from The Marine Center to kickstart my bacteria and wanted to see if anybody wanted to split the order. We can order 50 lbs of live sand for $105 bucks including tax & shipping split by (2) would be 25 lbs of live sand for $52.50 or $2.10 cents a pound.

I plan on ordering Monday.

[TexasState]

See if Tim have some live sand left. I bought some LR from him, and now I have lots of white mini bristle stars hanging out in my rocks and sand.

[Chris]

Don't waste your money... there's nothing in the sand that you won't find in a few lbs. of LR.

Just buy your dead cheap sand, and if you insist... get another 5 lbs of LS.

Whatever LR you add to the tank will seed the sand bed though. You're just spending double the money for the same final outcome.

[Isis]

I wouldn't waste my money on buying "live sand", see if any of the club members will donate, trade, or sell you a few pounds of sand to seed your tank. At the meetings here, especially frag swaps, we will trade a bag of sand for someone else's bag of tank to get critter variety in the sand beds. Besides, if you bought it from online, you are risking a die off that you can easily avoid from trading locally. Besides, I am sure there are few people who would be willing to sacrifice or sell a few pounds. If you have live rock in your tank, your rocks will seed your sand, unless of course you bought the rock completey dry and dead.

[z28pwr]

As Chris and Troy could tell you my rock isn't very pretty just green algae on it so I don't think there is much variety in my rock.

Any local guys want to trade some new sand for some of your live sand to kickstart my sandbed, I wouldn't need much just a little to get the thing going?

[Isis]

Just because your rock is ugly doesn't mean it doesn't have bacterial growth. If it came out of a salt water tank, then it has everything to seed your tank. Now if you are wanting pretty rocks with growth, that it a whole other matter... But the reason you want to trade sand is because all sand beds have interesting burrowing worms, and other polychaete worms like feather dusters and beneficial bristle worms, amphipods, copepods, stringy things that grow up the glass ;) , as well as dormant life that hasn't come alive yet.

[Troy Valentine]

Jose-

I will donate to the "Sand For Jose Fund" :lol: I've got a few pounds that you can have.

[z28pwr]

Jose-

I will donate to the "Sand For Jose Fund" :lol: I've got a few pounds that you can have.

Thanks Troy, I'll give you some new sand so you can replenish it.

[MikeP]

Jose, I can also bring you a cup of live sand from my old nano (up about 9 months now currently has bluspot jawfish in it) which is crawling with critters when I come by to get my sand next week. I do not have any of the micro brittle stars in the sand but have tons of some kind that live in the rockwork and have alternating white/black stripes. If you want I can bring you some rubble pieces of rock too with some good corraline growth also.

[z28pwr]

Jose, I can also bring you a cup of live sand from my old nano (up about 9 months now currently has bluspot jawfish in it) which is crawling with critters when I come by to get my sand next week. I do not have any of the micro brittle stars in the sand but have tons of some kind that live in the rockwork and have alternating white/black stripes. If you want I can bring you some rubble pieces of rock too with some good corraline growth also.

Thanks Techno, the more critters the better.

[Isis]

I like watching the worms.. and the copepods and amphipods at night.

...I need to get a life... :-D